Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the mayors get to France, where Boston's Curley will join the party, Mayor William Frederick Broening of Baltimore will have $8,000 in extra spending money. Just before he sailed he decided to accept the back pay from a salary increase which his city granted him in 1927 but which he had hitherto rejected...
Wrestler Jim Londos who had won a match the night before put a bet on Sweep All, horse of Charles T. Fisher (Bodies). Barney Oldfield, smoking a cigaret, sat on the club house veranda talking to Jack Curley who once taught him how to ride a bicycle. Boxer Max Schmeling stood and looked at the crowd with his habitually puzzled expression. Actress Queenie Smith made excited comments to her escort Drama critic Robert Garland. Blind Thomas Pryor Gore, onetime Senator from Oklahoma said he liked Twenty Grand. John Hertz remembered the year his Reigh Count won the Derby. Jockey Earl...
...Tatem Tilden II had not played Vincent Richards for five years because Richards was a professional and the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association would not countenance official matches between pros and amateurs. But after Tilden turned pro himself (TIME, Jan. 12) a match between them loomed. Shrewdly Promoter Jack Curley, tsar of U. S. professional tennis, built up for this match a lusty Irish ballyhoo startling in tennis* although routine in Mr. Curley's boxing and wrestling enterprises. He had the rivals issue derisive statements about each other which neither would under any circumstances have uttered. Curley further built...
...terrific leverage of the long, springlike body behind them, were hitting the lines for aces; his cut strokes were forcing errors; he was coming up to the net and volleying whenever he felt like it. In her mezzanine box, Cinemactress Gloria Swanson grew tired of clapping, but Promoter Jack Curley was not tired. Round and round the arena he tramped, carrying a cane, wearing white pants, a blue coat and the only straw hat in the house, his round face beaming on all the fine people who had come to his tennis match. In the last part of the last...
...Perhaps inspired by Curley's methods, Tilden has had himself incorporated. Outstanding securities are $30,000 preferred stock at $100, and 1,000 shares of common no par value. One of the largest stockholders in Tilden Tennis Tour Inc. is W. T. Tilden...